This week Steve and Noah talk about the things you didn't know you knew about Linux. Scott Jenson joins the program to talk about principals of UX/UI design.
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00:52 Self Hosting After Death - Michael
Steve's thought process
Important things
Home Assistant (https://www.home-assistant.io/)
Mealie (https://docs.mealie.io/)
Frigate (https://frigate.video/)
Steve's plan
Draw.io
LLMs
No desire to be trained
Open Source
Documentation
Noah's plan
Self hosted vs Cloud
Techie Friends
12:21 Scott Jenson - UX/UI Design
Product Strategist For Home Assistant and Mastodon
Scott's Website (https://jenson.org/)
Coloring outside the lines
Mobile vs Desktop
Desktop UI shortcomings
UX in Audacity and Penpot (https://penpot.app/)
Where can UX designers grow?
Articulating the business use case
Ink & Switch (https://www.inkandswitch.com/)
18:23 News Wire
Nano 8.7 - gnu.org (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2025-11/msg00002.html)
Thunderbird 145 - thunderbird.net (https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/145.0/releasenotes)
Firefox 145 - firefox.com (https://www.firefox.com/en-US/firefox/145.0/releasenotes)
Wine 10.19 - webpronews.com (https://www.webpronews.com/wine-10-19-ushers-in-linuxs-next-leap-for-windows-app-mastery)
Proton 10.0 - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Proton-10.0-3-Released)
KDE Frameworks 6.20.0 - kde.org (https://kde.org/announcements/frameworks/6/6.20.0)
SparkyLinux 8.1 - sparkylinux.org (https://sparkylinux.org/sparky-8-1)
Debian 13.2 - debian.org (https://www.debian.org/News/2025/20251115)
Tails 7.2 - torproject.org (https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tails-7_2)
Nitrix 5.0 - itsfoss.com (https://itsfoss.com/news/nitrux-5-release)
Kaspersky for Linux - tomshardware.com (https://www.tomshardware.com/software/antivirus/banned-russian-antivirus-maker-kaspersky-rolls-out-new-products-basic-plan-for-linux-starts-at-usd59-99-a-year)
Avahi Logic Flaw - zeropath.com (https://zeropath.com/blog/avahi-simple-protocol-server-dos-cve-2025-59529)
ImunifyAV Flaw - bleepingcomputer.com (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/rce-flaw-in-imunifyav-puts-millions-of-linux-hosted-sites-at-risk)
Akira Targets Nutanix VMs - bleepingcomputer.com (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cisa-warns-of-akira-ransomware-linux-encryptor-targeting-nutanix-vms)
Kraken Expands - cyberpress.org (https://cyberpress.org/kraken-ransomware)
VibeThinker-1.5B - venturebeat.com (https://venturebeat.com/ai/weibos-new-open-source-ai-model-vibethinker-1-5b-outperforms-deepseek-r1-on)
Worry Over Chinese AI - businessinsider.com (https://www.businessinsider.com/eric-schmidt-worried-governments-use-chinese-ai-open-source-models-2025-11)
US Must Go Open Source - techbuzz.ai (https://www.techbuzz.ai/articles/databricks-co-founder-us-must-go-open-source-to-beat-china-in-ai)
Linux Knowledge
The "Mythical New User"
People use all sorts of UI/UX today
Knowledge we take for granted
Teaching is the highest form of learning
See one, do one, teach one
Talk radio principle: Watering plants that are already there
Linux and Windows architectures are different
39:50 Source Command
How it works
Variables
Environment Variable
What the source command does
Getting started with source and python
48:00 Know your short comings
Know what you don't know
Know how to explain it simply
Keeping things simple
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